MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. MYERS

No. 44504.

203 So.2d 317 (1967)

MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. M.O. MYERS et ux.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Suggestion of Error Overruled November 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Madison Travis, Meridian, Boyd, Holifield & Harper, Laurel, for appellant.

McFarland & McFarland, Bay Springs, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

M.O. Myers and wife brought this action in the Circuit Court of Jasper County against the Mississippi State Highway Commission, appellant, for damages resulting from highway construction which cut off a public road used by plaintiffs for access to their property, by crossing land to the south owned by J.E. Myers. In the first trial the jury returned a verdict of $5,000 for plaintiffs, and on appeal...

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